$2 - TDK 3hr VHS Tapes 5pk @ DickSmith

This was posted 10 months 9 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal

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irajohn90 on 11/07/2012 - 15:08 dicksmith.com.au (1053 clicks)

Another special from Dicks small change menu.

Those who are still rocking the VHS tapes here's a special for you. $2 for 5 cassette tapes!!! bargain!!
and if you need a VHS rewinder ebay have plenty of them.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/VHS-Video-tape-automatic-rewinder...

there's a lot you can get with just $2.

Pick and collect only, not available at all stores.

irajohn90

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- +7 votes
  
  greenpossum on 11/07/2012 - 16:58 ¶
  
  Perhaps the brands sold there are actually Sauny and Shrap? :)
  - +1 vote
    
    Dr.Tenma on 11/07/2012 - 18:28 ¶
    
    HAHAHAHAHA very funny being most things you own come from asia.
  - +2 votes
    
    ferguscan on 12/07/2012 - 08:56 ¶
    
    It's a genuine Panafonics.
vodanh on 11/07/2012 - 16:35 ¶

the chinese are the Video Tape killer. they flood the economy with cheap DVD player and blanks.
make me wonder how does Blockbuster/Video Ezy(still exists?) live.
- +10 votes
  
  Cluster on 11/07/2012 - 16:39 ¶
  
  The Chinese DVD (and now Blu-ray) players are the saviours of free market DVD/Blu-ray trade. Prior to cheap Chinese players appearing on the market all local DVD players were locked to Region 4. Legitimately bought a genuine DVD disc overseas? Stiff. Sony says no. The Chinese built players that ignored all the silly Region 1 to 5 and A/B/C nonsense, and thank goodness they did. I recently bought a Kogan blu-ray player because my PS3 gets angsty when I present it with a Region A disc.
  
  What's slowly killing the local video store is downloadable content. Nothing will stop that.
  - +2 votes
    
    heatseeker424 on 11/07/2012 - 18:10 ¶
    
    Godzilla will stop that.
  - robbiejuve on 12/07/2012 - 10:39 ¶
    
    I dont understand how they have survived this long really. Movie downloads have been super easy and fast for quite some years now. You would have to have rocks in your heard if you bought a video store now.
Dack Smith on 11/07/2012 - 16:37 ¶

This is a great deal for my old VCR except all the DSEs near me have already sold out of these tapes
- +5 votes
  
  Dr.Tenma on 11/07/2012 - 18:27 ¶
  
  yeh ten years ago
- shmahoo on 12/07/2012 - 07:55 ¶
  
  this shouldn't still be an issue for you !
vikingbrad on 11/07/2012 - 16:38 ¶

Can you use these for backing up the Internet?
+1 vote

johnno07 on 11/07/2012 - 16:40 ¶

Any deals on Laserdiscs?
- BartholemewH on 11/07/2012 - 18:17 ¶
  
  They're in the discount bin with the Jaguar games.
  - shmahoo on 12/07/2012 - 07:55 ¶
    
    now that's a one percent-er
  - daveted on 12/07/2012 - 10:11 ¶
    
    And in the discount bin with the music cartridges and cassettes.
    
    And the K-tel album selector.
donkeykong on 11/07/2012 - 16:41 ¶

I still have two dozen of these and audio tapes in my basement. The machine that needed to use them are all dead.
+2 votes

eug on 11/07/2012 - 16:43 ¶

40c per monitor riser is pretty alright.
geoffs87 on 11/07/2012 - 16:59 ¶

Do they go in picture side up or picture side down?
+1 vote

montorola on 11/07/2012 - 17:04 ¶

Remember how bad pausing used to be? And then when the picture starts getting bad, you use the tracking function on your remote. Hardc0re!
- irajohn90 on 11/07/2012 - 17:07 ¶
  
  the white fuzy lines access the tv haha!
  - +5 votes
    
    UFO on 11/07/2012 - 17:18 ¶
    
    funny how that always used to occur at nude scenes in movies… tape very worn out at those parts for some reason ;).
    - irajohn90 on 11/07/2012 - 17:20 ¶
      
      the arrival…. hahaha
    - +1 vote
      
      eug on 11/07/2012 - 17:22 ¶
      
      The arrival? Did someone just come?
- MrZ on 11/07/2012 - 21:06 ¶
  
  I haven't had a tracking function on a VCR since the 1990s. My current VCR (a Sony from 2001) has auto-tracking - you can't even manually adjust it if you try.
+2 votes

cattop on 11/07/2012 - 17:15 ¶

My 80+ year old mother in law insists on using tapes and refuses to learn any of the new stuff. For her VHS are perfect, press record, go to bed, next night watch rest of movie.
+25 votes

joshptyltd on 11/07/2012 - 17:39 ¶

This deal would be great if it was posted in 1996. Not to worry, here is Ozbargain from 1996, complete with high-contrast elements, animated objects everywhere, Comic Sans, and a soundtrack! : http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=1&ur...
- +1 vote
  
  m0nkeycheese on 11/07/2012 - 18:38 ¶
  
  HAHA thats awesome!!
  - shmahoo on 12/07/2012 - 07:57 ¶
    
    awesome to the power of awesome. nice job
- +1 vote
  
  sparkles on 11/07/2012 - 21:44 ¶
  
  I had completely forgotten about the existence of that dancing baby LOL. How completely LAME was that? :D
- sasangeleus on 11/07/2012 - 22:38 ¶
  
  404 error!
- -1 vote
  
  mdippa on 12/07/2012 - 12:59 ¶
  
  haha, the .midi file playing in the background is great. Every time I created a page using HTML only, I would always add a midi file like that.
+1 vote

machej on 11/07/2012 - 17:40 ¶

240p…We meet again.
- +1 vote
  
  MrZ on 11/07/2012 - 21:01 ¶
  
  240i
+5 votes

Jabba the Hutt on 11/07/2012 - 17:48 ¶

Anyone seriously considering buying these needs their head cleaned.
- thrones on 12/07/2012 - 00:18 ¶
  
  somwone say head cleaner? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56CtrvJFKdk
  
  i had no idea until i saw some of dvds that so many of arnies movies were cut ;)
  
  also i binned a shitload of babylon 5 tapes when the dvds starting coming out.
  
  best day ever was finding my dads porn stash lol.
  - +2 votes
    
    shmahoo on 12/07/2012 - 07:58 ¶
    
    this post contains a number of issues that I think are worth of discussion with my other psychologist friends. I'll get back to you
-1 vote

mungas on 11/07/2012 - 17:55 ¶

How many gigabytes are these ?
- +14 votes
  
  johnno07 on 11/07/2012 - 17:56 ¶
  
  Joke's already been done about halfway up the page, man. Haha
  - +1 vote
    
    mungas on 11/07/2012 - 18:46 ¶
    
    damn, I'm gonna report that guy for copy pasta :p
    - Fincky on 11/07/2012 - 21:07 ¶
      
      Snooze and ya looze! P.S it was me ;)
-.- on 11/07/2012 - 17:56 ¶

Has anyone actually found a store with stock? :P
skinny on 11/07/2012 - 18:14 ¶

Thanks - this come in handy to build the new clothes line!
-2 votes

jonokhoa on 11/07/2012 - 18:15 ¶

SICKKKKK cheap ass doorstops
jv on 11/07/2012 - 18:20 Comment score below threshold (-14).
- m0nkeycheese on 11/07/2012 - 18:39 Comment score below threshold (3).
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BartholemewH on 11/07/2012 - 18:22 ¶

Nostalgic post delivers!
-2 votes

Postulative on 11/07/2012 - 18:53 ¶

They won't work in my Betamax!
richim on 11/07/2012 - 18:54 ¶

VHS lol! Shouldn't these tapes be in the museum!
- -3 votes
  
  irajohn90 on 11/07/2012 - 20:18 ¶
  
  They should be burned
+2 votes

TonyP on 11/07/2012 - 20:13 ¶

My mum's still a big fan of the VHS - for the grandkids. Swears they're nearly kidproof, and she buys all the old cartoons and kids movies from the op shops for 50c - $1 each.
- dowant on 11/07/2012 - 20:47 ¶
  
  That's actually pretty smart.
  
  My younger cousin has gone through (literally) three DVDs of a Tom and Jerry movie in less than a few months.
  
  I mean, he's a terror, but there's no denying that VHS would probably be harder to destroy. :P
  - FabMan on 12/07/2012 - 11:01 ¶
    
    Challenge accepted!
- sparkles on 11/07/2012 - 21:48 ¶
  
  My local op shop sells VHS tapes for all of 10c a piece. The other week they had what looked to be an entire Star Trek collection and also cricket ones from the Merv Hughes era. DVD's are complete rip-off - 50c! Usually they are bad Kung Fu movies.
BargainHaggler on 11/07/2012 - 20:48 ¶

lolll head cleaned!! heheh
Ahh the Good ol days :). I remember I used to pause then play/rec to cut out commercials. even ripped the tab out and press rec so it could eject. :). Still gotta LG hybrid (vhs —> dvd rec)and an old National top loader sitting in the garage i think.
bargainhunter on 11/07/2012 - 21:07 ¶

I re-employed my LG VCR to record Austar (via an analogue MATV setup in a block of flats) after my analogue PVR/DVD recorder gave up the ghost a year or so ago. Hard to find a replacement PVR so I'm open to suggestions.
My local Dick has these so I've ordered a new pack to replace my current TDK 5 pack.
+7 votes

MrZ on 11/07/2012 - 21:30 ¶

TDK does amazing things to my system.
- +1 vote
  
  sparkles on 11/07/2012 - 21:51 ¶
  
  That jingle is gonna be in my head for days now, thanks!
  
  TDK does a—-maaaaaaz—-ing things, TDK does a—maaaaz—-ing things, TDK does a-maz-ing things to my system…..pause………to my system.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZwL1aQ2PYE
outlander on 11/07/2012 - 22:11 ¶

Can't believe so many votes. I have a whole 3 boxes full of vhs tapes, can't even give them away.
+1 vote

Shlomo Scheinbaum on 11/07/2012 - 22:12 ¶

I've purchased this to confuse and frighten my grandchildren in case I lose my 5 1/4" floppy drive.
sasangeleus on 11/07/2012 - 22:42 ¶

Almost 100! Well done OP!
machej on 11/07/2012 - 23:01 ¶

I have no intention to purchase this but I'm happy it's on the front page as some of the comments here are hilarious. :D
Josh81 on 11/07/2012 - 23:14 ¶

5 x crap = crap

:-)

Nothing like pausing a video to look at something more closely… awhh what :(
cytotoxic on 11/07/2012 - 23:45 ¶

Free nostalgia, awesome deal!
DEvok on 12/07/2012 - 00:14 ¶

Ah the memory's 1970s.
kuyajs on 12/07/2012 - 00:51 ¶

I know one man who would be thrilled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4iw8Ppo1o
g12345567 on 12/07/2012 - 01:03 ¶

I didn't know they still made and sold VHS tapes. I stopped buying and watching vhs when my vcr stopped working one day. Went out and purchased a PVR. Best move I ever did. The quality of VHS does not live up to digital video standard in todays market.

Check out this guy throwing out trash bag loads of old video tapes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOQLJxc9Qxo
- beatlock on 12/07/2012 - 11:14 ¶
  
  U moved from VHS to PVR???
fieldafar on 12/07/2012 - 05:01 ¶

All sold out around where I live. Oh well.
FabMan on 12/07/2012 - 11:04 ¶

In 1998 I bought my first DVD player and I haven't look back, however a family member bought me the Phantom Menance a year later on VHS, I back handed them for the double insult.

VHS had its time in the Sun, but for me finding someone hadn't rewinded the tape back after they last watched it was just too frustrating to continue with.
- Jabba the Hutt on 12/07/2012 - 12:23 ¶
  
  At least having to rewind a tape was based on an honest and sincere limitation of the technology, whereas the main time-wasting annoyances on DVD (UOPs aka unskippables) are artificial, control-freak driven restrictions.
dimefan90 on 12/07/2012 - 13:37 ¶

My local store had one pack left so i grabbed it.

I kinda wanna hook a blu ray player up to my VCR and see what the quality is like, lol.
- dimefan90 on 12/07/2012 - 17:18 ¶
  
  The quality is just as bad if not worse than bought VHS movies.
+2 votes

DaTa on 12/07/2012 - 20:23 ¶

Picked up my VHS tapes today.
manic on 12/07/2012 - 21:11 ¶

If only home entertainment technology was like clothes. Hang onto them long enough, and they are fashionable again.
- grab_ur_freebies on 12/07/2012 - 22:05 ¶
  
  VHS is back, in black…well thats what she said!
superkieu on 13/07/2012 - 13:02 ¶

wow, we're still buying Video Tapes?
lol….
montorola on 13/07/2012 - 19:24 ¶

Ok, I got the tapes…now I need a VCR.

I think I'll go around asking HN, DickSmith etc for a VCR just for the lulz
- TScott on 13/07/2012 - 20:03 ¶
  
  Lol, I think they mostly exist as DVD/DVD-recorder, VHS combo systems nowadays in shops. Although I think I saw a separate VHS player being sold at the good guys a few months back. I myself have a samsung DVD-recorder, VHS combo with HDMI output for the main tele. I have used the DVD recorder to convert tapes to DVD and it has worked great. And its really great to have when you want to play back classic tapes like Lion King when kids come over. =D
montorola on 13/07/2012 - 19:24 ¶

Ok, I got the tapes…now I need a VCR.

I think I'll go around asking HN, DickSmith etc for a VCR just for the lulz